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BAKERSFIELD, CA - The New Mexico State women’s basketball team fell 60-59 in a grinder at CSU Bakersfield on Thursday night in a defensive slugfest.

Both the Aggies (7-13, 4-3 WAC) and Runners (13-7, 5-2 WAC) both came out of the gates locked in defensively. Both teams shot 3-13 (23.1-percent) from the field in the quarter and the Aggies led 12-10 after one. NM State forced four turnovers in the quarter.

The second quarter was more of the same, as the two programs who hang their hats on defense continued to trade stops and force turnovers. However, NM State was able to stay in front and led 21-19 at the half. New Mexico State held the CSU Bakersfield to 30-percent shooting (6-20) in the half.  Continue Reading This Post >>

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Senior Lashira Tremble is the Western Athletic Conference Women's Indoor Track Athlete of the Week for Jan. 20-26.

The native Peoria, Ariz., was in midseason form at last weekend's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Collegiate Invitational in Albuquerque N.M., as she put her sprinting prowess on full display in the NM State track and field team's second meet of the year.

Tremble set new personal bests in the 60m dash and 200m race, coming across the line in 7.44 seconds and 24.80 seconds, respectively. Her performance in the 60m dash is the second fastest time in program history and ranks as the top time in the WAC this season.

Her effort in the 200m, meanwhile, is the WAC's second-best time this year.

The indoor season rolls on for Tremble and the Aggies in February. The squad returns to action at the UNM Collegiate Classic on Friday, Feb. 7, and Saturday, Feb. 8.

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DENVER, CO - Senior catcher Nikki Butler was picked to repeat as Western Athletic Conference Player of the Year by the league’s coaches, the WAC announced on Wednesday.

Butler is the only Aggie picked to the All-WAC preseason team after winning WAC Player of the Year a season ago. Last season, the La Habra, Calif., native batted .299 with nine home runs, 34 RBI and a .392 on-base percentage. During WAC play, she hit .386, slugged .632, hit six dingers and had an on-base percentage of .453.

For her career, Butler is hitting .340 with a .600 slugging percentage, a .421 on-base percentage and 114 RBI.

The league’s coaches also picked the Aggies to finish third in the league with 28 points. Last year’s champion Seattle U was picked to repeat with 53 points and five first-place votes while GCU was picked second with 30 points and two first-place votes.  Continue Reading This Post >>

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The Aggies and Rainbow Warriors will clash twice in 2021.

NM State and Hawaii, already scheduled to meet on Sept. 25, 2021, at Aggie Memorial Stadium, will go head-to-head again on Oct. 23, 2021, inside Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii.

The additional game will give NM State its third in-season, home-and-home series in four years. The Aggies took on Liberty twice during both the 2018 and 2019 campaigns.

NM State and Hawaii, the former Western Athletic Conference foes, also agreed to games in 2022, 2023 and 2024. The Aggies will host the Rainbow Warriors on Oct. 15, 2022, and Aug. 24, 2024, inside Aggie Memorial Stadium and make a trip to Honolulu for a Sept. 23, 2023, contest.  Continue Reading This Post >>

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EDINBURG, TX - Dealt another dose of devastating news Wednesday morning when it was announced senior Trevelin Queen would miss four-to-six weeks while recovering from a lateral meniscus tear, the same old questions popped up regarding the New Mexico State men's basketball team.

How would they recover? What happens now? Is all hope lost?

Saturday night, the Aggies answered each and every one of those questions - and probably a few more - by doing the one thing they have done in league action on a more consistent basis than almost any other team in the nation over the past two-plus years.

They won.

Ivan Aurrecoechea could not be stopped on the block and the Spaniard finished with a game-high 19 points - including a pair of big-time free throws with 24 seconds to go - and the Aggies held off a late charge by UTRGV to earn a 67-62 triumph inside the UTRGV Fieldhouse.   Continue Reading This Post >>

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The rematch of the 2019 Western Athletic Conference Tournament championship game lived up to the hype.

Adrianna Henderson flipped in a layup with 0.2 seconds remaining in overtime and Gia Pack's hot play continued as the New Mexico State women's basketball team survived UT Rio Grande Valley in overtime, 76-75, at the Pan American Center on Thursday night. Pack scored 26 points with 11 boards and is now averaging 27 points and 13.3 rebounds over the last three games.The Aggies (7-12, 4-2 WAC) started fast and played lockdown defense to open a 19-9 lead through one quarter. NM State held UTRGV (8-11, 3-3) 3-13 shooting in the quarter while shooting 43.8-percent from the floor.  Continue Reading This Post >>

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - A total of four former Aggie greats - Andrea Kabwasa (women's basketball), Wendell McKines (men's basketball), Darrell Martin (track & field) and Chris Williams (football) - are set to be the latest group of individuals inducted into the US Bank/NM State Athletics Hall of Fame as new Mexico State athletics announced its 2020 class Wednesday morning.

Those four individuals are set to be formally inducted on Friday, Feb. 21, at 6:00 p.m. MT in the Barbara Hubbard Room on the second floor of the Pan American Center and will be recognized the following day at halftime of the men's basketball game against UTRGV.

Tickets are $40 per person and can by purchased by calling Nicole Gomez at 575-646-8050 or via email at nicolemg@nmsu.edu. The deadline to purchase tickets for the event is Wednesday, Feb. 19.   Continue Reading This Post >>

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DENVER, CO - After a monster weekend of Western Athletic Conference play, Gia Pack was named WAC Player of the Week for the second time this season, the league announced Monday.

This is the senior’s second Player of the Week honor this season.

Pack averaged 27.5 points and 14.5 rebounds as the Aggies split a pair of conference home games. She scored 25 on 5-8 three-point shooting with 10 boards against Utah Valley on Jan. 16. Pack followed that performance up with 30 points and 19 rebounds in an 83-65 win over Seattle U on Jan. 18. It was the fourth 30-point game of her career.  Continue Reading This Post >>

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SEATTLE, WA - Perception was reality in the Redhawk Center Saturday night.

Fans in attendance saw a New Mexico State team that was facing extreme difficulty getting its shots to fall. A team that was on the ropes after going own by 11 points early. Then, the perception of the Aggies changed. They became a team that fought and clawed their way back into things until the reality was this at the end of the night: the Aggies are still the team to beat in the WAC.

Ivan Aurrecoechea made a mockery of the Redhawks' interior defense, shredding it to ribbons to the tune of 19 points and 11 rebounds, Jabari Rice joined his senior teammate in double-double territory with 17 points and a career-high 11 boards and the Aggies overcame an 11-point first-half deficit to claim a hard-fought 75-67 triumph at Seattle U.   Continue Reading This Post >>

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Gia Pack dropped 30 points and 19 rebounds and the New Mexico State women’s basketball team erased a 17-point deficit for an 83-65 win over Seattle U on Saturday in the Pan American Center.

After two threes from Amanda Soderqvist, NM State (6-12, 3-2 WAC) struggled in the first quarter, turning the ball over seven times and trailing the Redhawks (7-11, 1-4 WAC) 25-12 through one. Seattle U shot 53.3-percent from the field in the quarter while shooting 3-4 from three.  Continue Reading This Post >>